Live Auction 7959Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds
A SAFAVID LAVENDER GLAZED POTTERY BOTTLE
Lot 138

A SAFAVID LAVENDER GLAZED POTTERY BOTTLE

IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

Closed7 April 2011

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GBP 7,500

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A SAFAVID LAVENDER GLAZED POTTERY BOTTLE
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Rising from short slightly spread foot through globular lobed body and short cylindrical neck to wide flaring similarly lobed mouth with raised lip, the interior with a celadon glaze, the exterior with a lavender-blue glaze over the celadon glaze, repaired breaks to rim
5½in. (14cm.) high

Anon sale in these Rooms, 23 April 1991, lot 132,
The Collection of The Berkeley Trust, sold Sotheby's, 12 October 2004, lot 76

Specialist note

A similar monochrome lavender blue bottle is in the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from, gifted by Camilla Chandler Frost.